AgeX Therapeutics’ CEO Dr. Michael D. West to Present at Ending Age-Related Diseases: Investment Prospects & Advances in Research
July 9, 2019ALAMEDA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. (“AgeX”; NYSE American: AGE), a biotechnology company focused on therapeutics for human aging, announced today that founder and CEO Michael D. West, Ph.D. will present at Ending Age-Related Diseases: Investment Prospects & Advances in Research, from the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF), July 11-12 at The Cooper Union in New York City.
AgeX will participate in the following sessions on Thursday, July 12:
- Presentation: As part of the session, “Creating interventions against aging, Part 1” beginning at 9:40am EDT, Dr. West will deliver a 20-minute presentation titled, “The Reversal of the Aging of Human Cells: Strategies for Clinical Implementation.”
- Panel: Dr. West will participate on a panel, “Unlocking the Future Without Age-Related Diseases: Forecasts” at 3:50pm.
The full program may be found here. Event registration is here.
About AgeX Therapeutics
AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American: AGE) is focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapeutics for human aging. Its PureStem® and UniverCyte™ manufacturing and immunotolerance technologies are designed to work together to generate highly defined, universal, allogeneic, off-the-shelf pluripotent stem cell-derived young cells of any type for application in a whole host of diseases with a high unmet medical need. AgeX has two preclinical cell therapy programs: AGEX-VASC1 (vascular progenitor cells) for tissue ischemia and AGEX-BAT1 (brown fat cells) for Type II diabetes. AgeX’s revolutionary longevity platform named induced Tissue Regeneration (iTR™) aims to unlock cellular immortality and regenerative capacity to reverse age-related changes within tissues. AGEX-iTR1547 is an iTR-based formulation in preclinical development. HyStem® is AgeX’s delivery technology to stably engraft PureStem cell therapies and slowly release iTR molecules in the body. AgeX is developing its core product pipeline for use in the clinic to extend human healthspan, and is seeking opportunities to form licensing and partnership agreements around its broad IP estate and proprietary technology platforms for non-core clinical applications.
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Forward-Looking Statements
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Contacts
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